New submission from Eric Appelt <eric.app...@gmail.com>: The documentation for the EXTENDED_ARG instruction in the dis module documentation refers to the way the opcode worked before 3.6: https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/dis.html#opcode-EXTENDED_ARG
As I understand, since moving to 2-byte wordcode in 3.6, each EXTENDED_ARG effectively adds a byte to the argument of the next instruction and they can be chained to allow up to a 32-bit argument. The current documentation refers the 2-byte arguments from the older bytecode used in 3.5 and below. I'm trying to think of a clear and concise wording for how it works now and will add a PR to fix this issue unless someone gets to it before me. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 314100 nosy: Eric Appelt, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Documentation for EXTENDED_ARG in dis module is incorrect for >=3.6 versions: Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue33104> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
